| CDL | Middle of the fifth century, to Caesar |
| MCI | Start of the 12th century, to Caesar |
| CDLI | Middle of the fifth century |
| PHIDIAS | Athenian sculptor of the 5th century BC whose statue of Zeus at Olympia (c. 430 BC) was one of the Seven Wonders of the World (7) |
| SOPHOCLES | Greek tragic dramatist of the 5th century BC to whom such innovations as the addition of a third actor and the use of painted scenery are attributed (9) |
| MALACHI | Book Of ---, part of the Old Testament attributed to a Hebrew prophet of the 5th Century BC (7) |
| RAVENNA | City in northern Italy which was capital of the Western Roman Empire for much of the fifth century AD (7) |
| DARIUS | ____ the Great, Persian king of the fifth century BC (6) |
| CORIOLANUS | Legendary Roman general of the 5th Century BC, the inspiration for a Shakespeare tragedy of the same name (10) |
| ATTILA | Scourge of the fifth century |
| STLEO | Pope of the fifth century |
| CDI | Start of the fifth century |
| IKTINOS | Athenian architect of the 5th century BC who co-designed the Parthenon with Callicrates and the sculptor Phidias (7) |
| HERODOTUS | Greek historian of the 5th-century BC known as The Father of History |
| EZRA | Jewish priest of the 5th century BC after whom a book of the Old Testament is named |
| DARKAGES | The "unenlightened period", late 5th century to 1000AD (4,4) |
| ARAMAIC | Common language of the 5th-century BC Persian empire |
| AGES | Period in European history from around the late 5th-century to about 1100 AD (4,4) |
| DARK | Period in European history from around the late 5th-century to about 1100 AD (4,4) |
| MIDDLEAGES | European history from the late 5th century to about 1350 (6,4) |
